Deadly_Nightshade

Because they're annoying gits?

Oh, I would not have done that. Valve has been, accourding to the Steam forums, neglecting the 360 when it comes to patches - or rather the patches are always late, if they come at all, due to Microsoft's handling of them.

Lulz. :(

Well... I would say it's as good -if not better than- KotoR I. Of course I'm not done with it yet...

Mass Effect 2... On the PC!

I might get it... if it is more interesting than the previews make it out to be.

Well, I'm running FurMark now and it's been cranking for about twenty minutes without any problems (I'd rather know it's a bad GPU and have it die then not know and have a dead laptop when I really need it). I'll try Fallout and the high-res pack later. Anyways, so far so good.

Yeah it is a 8600M GT, so I'll try to adjust the fan and see if it gets better. If not, well, I looked at replacement costs and it would be less than $200 - although I might simply buy another laptop and use this one for parts (the original price was only about $600-700 and so $200 is about a third of the cost of a new one). Any other ideas of how to maximize the life expectancy? EDIT: It seems, so far, to only happen when rainbow Six Vegas 2 is running (it was minimized for the screenshot as I was trying to see if only the game was affected) - could it be an issue with that program that is causing the artifacts or does it still look like a dying card?

Here's a screenshot of the desktop - although a restart fixed the problem (for now). Think my videocard is dying -that would be a pian as this is from my laptop-, or was it a glitch?

I'm downloading the stuff from BioWare that enables you to install NWN on Linux.

Mass Effect - good game, definitely as good as the first KotoR (if not better).

IIRC those are not visted much by Obsidian Devs.

Velvet Assassin looks good, I think I'll get it if it's not crippled by DRM.

I agree.

I ran it in DX10 mode with some AA, I cannot remember the amount as I was borrowing the game and has been awhile -it might have been 10 or 12-, at 1280x800 - that's the max this laptop's screen will go resolution-wise.

Define "near max levels" and I'll be able to tell you.

Sorry but modern games will need more powah Lolz. Maybe to run at 2500x1900 (or whatever you use) - but not in most cases.

Lolz. I can play both of those on my PoS laptop with decent settings. EDIT: As for GTA IV - it was simply a ****ty port.

It's the worst of them...

What version of the game do you have and have you used any mods?

A classic.

Ok, I can understand that (I disabled Liva as well, but i so have Steam as I play Valve games like Left 4 Dead). Just make sure you get an unregistered copy if you get the original version - you'll need to make a forum account with that code to activate the patch. However, you don't need to worry about that with an Enhanced Edition game.

Steam has it IIRC.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 via LAN - thanks to everyone who said that the co-op was worth the $10, it really is. We've just cleared the first real level -the one after the prologue- and have been having a blast.